[Dovecot] file permissions help!

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 15:49, smk wrote:
> But there is a problem with dovecot reading the mbox file (I think).  In
> the error file I get this entry:
> 
> imap(USER at DOMAIN.com): "Apr 12 22:15:10 "Fatal: Failed to create
> storage with data: /export/htdocs/DOMAIN.com/mail/USER
> dovecot: "Apr 12 22:15:11 "Error: child 18613 (imap) returned error 89

This means Dovecot wasn't able to figure out what to do with that given
default_mail_env. It didn't know if it was maildir, mbox or what. So the
fix is to add "mbox:" to beginning of default_mail_env, ie.:

default_mail_env = mbox:/export/htdocs/...

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